World Phenomenology Institute (WPI) is an academic organization founded in 1976 (originally named the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning) to promote scholarship in the area of phenomenology. The organization was founded by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. See also Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy British Society for Phenomenology Phenomenology (philosophy) Existential phenomenology Edmund Husserl Edith Stein Martin Heidegger Maurice Merleau-Ponty Jean-Paul Sartre Paul Ricoeur Emmanuel Levinas Jacques Derrida External links WPI website Phenomenology Philosophical societies in the United States Continental philosophy organizations